Hi, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > So, would anyone mind if we changed the version control system from > darcs to git?
git++ > I think using darcs is throwing a whole bunch of people off. There are (or at least were) also these version incompatibilies between IIRC 1.0.9 and 2.0 and laconica IIRC uses 1.0.9 while many Linux distributions ship no 1.0.x version anymore. > And git is definitely taking over the distributed version control area. Ack. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Abraham Williams wrote: > Is it going to be self hosted or using something like GitHub? Good question. repo.or.cz is the other popular git hoster. SourceForge still doesn't seem to have any git hosting yet. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Feelings, ideas, emotions, opinions? On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:55:32PM +0100, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote: > I'd personally use bzr, but git is great too! <braindump> bzr/bazaar/bazaar-ng seems to have far too many forks floating around (someone said there are "about 2.4 bazaar forks" ;-) to make clear which one is the right one to use. This thread made me look up why "bazaar" has been thrown out of Debian Lenny/Sid months ago (http://bugs.debian.org/454313) and when I asked for the connections between bzr, bazaar, bazaar-ng and bazaar-vcs.org in IRC, the first answer was "Don't ask". In comparison to bzr/bazaar, git is widely accepted and used in a vast number of different projects, but good in branching and merging, too. And there are converters from and to nearly every other VCS for git. Just its usage is a little uncommon for those who are used to e.g. svn, cvs or hg. (Not sure about darcs here, haven't used it that much -- only with laconica.) The only other drawback of git (beside its not so common UI) is that some of the important features are working only with 1.5.x and above while Debian Etch has only 1.4.x (but for luck there are 1.5.x backports available at backports.org and Debian Lenny is hopefully released before christmas(*)). So IMHO moving from darcs to git is a step forward and also the only step making sense. </braindump> (*) No year mentioned intentionally. ;-) Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/ _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
